English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 1
_Source_.--From memory of Mrs. B. Abrahams, who heard it from her mother some _x_ years ago (more than 40).
Who acts: memory · What happens: hear · To what, where: memory
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (memory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 2 | Source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 6 memory | punct |
| 5 | From | from | ADP | _ | 6 memory | case |
| 6 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Source | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Abrahams | case |
| 8 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 B. | compound |
| 9 | B. | B. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Abrahams | compound |
| 10 | Abrahams | abraham | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 memory | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 memory | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obl |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 years | det |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 x | punct |
| 20 | x | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 years | compound |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 x | punct |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 mother | advmod |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 40 | punct |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 27 40 | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 more | fixed |
| 27 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 mother | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 40 | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Source | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | memory of B. Abrahams | memory | from her mother | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from mother=Source |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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